Chiesa di San Vincenzo in Castro
Nome | Descrizione |
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Indirizzo | Via Arduino - Loc. Castello POMBIA (NO) |
Web | https://www.comune.pombia.no.it/it-it/vivere-il-comune/cosa-vedere/chiesa-di-san-vincenzo-in-castro- |
The parish church dedicated to San Vincenzo rises in the locality of Castello, next to the “Castel Domino”. Different sources tell us that the bishop Bascapé ascribes the parish priest’s seat to Varallo Pombia until 1347, while the Consignationes (1347) attest that Pombia assumed the parish priest’s dignity just in that year. The church keeps the typical Romanesque structure both in the interior and in the exterior; even though the interior was covered by Baroque forms. It has a nave and two aisles with a sole central apse, the two aisles were demolished in the 18th century. Fragments of wall-paintings of a big Universal Judgement, which can be referred to the Roman age, are visible in the entrance counter-façade next to organ on the first left pilaster while The Madonna Del Latte with Child dates back to the 15th century. The saddleback façade is decorated with hanging archlets; it is partially hidden by a narthex (foyer of the church) developing on two levels. The right front corner of its square plan lies on a Roman age stone. A little sacellum has been put in a niche overlooked by a lunette with fragments of wall-paintings and covered by a dome-shaped cross-vault, located in the lower floor of the narthex. Inside the loculus, once covered by a stone, you can see three typical Lombard crosses, which are finely painted in white colour on red background. The upper room of the narthex is very interesting; it shows a chapel with apsidiole overhanging southwards, where a velarium is wall-painted on the lower part; it depicts themes of the afterlife: the cock symbolizes alertness, the peacock the immortality of soul and the triple-headed dog, hellish demon, moving among palmettes and wisps of grass symbolizes hope of the eternal life. All this, according to the scholars makes us think to an expiatory chapel, where funeral services were carried out in honour of the deceased. But who was the deceased? It could be Litulfo, son of Otto the Great. According to some sources he died in Pombia in 957.